![]() ![]() This is a run and click OK solution that I just store on a merged (CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+E in Photoshop) layer so I can undo if I change my mind later. For those wanting more control, there’s a wealth of options and ways to set measure points. This is very much like presets in Adobe Lightroom, and a brilliant way to make the complex simple. These settings are like presets of the sliders below, so Night Scene as shown in the image above is simply raising the Noise Reduction values. It’s smoking fast and the Settings up at the top left corner of the screen were sufficient enough for my needs. While the user-interface of this product is fairly intimidating, the good news is that it is so damn smart that you really don’t need to use it! Here’s what it looks like on Window Vista system, but it is available on Mac OS as well: It seems to have the best algorithm for knowing what to sharpen and what to leave alone and how to avoid destroying the sharpness of your image in the process of trying to make that noise go away. This product has the best automatic mode of any product I have ever used. After spending a month with this product, I understand why. Well when Scott says something is good, I listen and he recommends Imagenomic Noiseware Professional in his Lightroom 2 for Digital Photographers and The Adobe Photoshop CS4 Book for Digital Photographers. This article refers to version 4.1.1, but as of with version 5.0, I still consider it the best noise reduction software product on the market.Įver heard of Scott Kelby (founder of NAPP)? Well, if you’ve been reading this blog you sure have because he’s the biggest and best Digital Photography, Photoshop & Lightroom book author on the planet. You have our gratitude.See the bottom of this article for a 15% discount offer on this product. Doesn't really matter I have both proggies, so whichever will give me the right result is what I will use for each specific image. ![]() I have the profiles for both my 30Dand XT at all ISO's, so I just run those and I get great results from Noise Ninja. I found that it softened my image way too much. Glad to hear you have success with Noiseware. I haven't tried Neat Image, but between Noise Ninja and Noiseware, I vote Noiseware all the way! Noiseware, for me, does a better job of both reducing noise AND keeping detail. Noise Ninja seemed to always over-blur details it was hard to get adequate NR without losing noticeable details. I had the camera profiles and everything. I tried and tried Noise Ninja, and while I could usually eventually get the results I wanted, it took much more time than Noiseware. I assume you're talking about Imaginomic's Noiseware, and not just the NR that Portraiture does? Man, I have to disagree. "We are building a fighting force of extraordinary magnitude. No less than 2 GB (but remember XP stops caching RAM at 2GB so you don't really want to go overboard) a dual core processor or a beefy single core. I would recommend a beefy system to use this with Photoshop CS3. So maybe, even professionally you can come up with a reasonable result. All these presets are customizable as well. There are presets for Low, Med, High smoothing, "glamour', hi/lo key. It does leave the skin tone a bit soft, but you can change parameters to vary this effect. But then again, if you are making money, the results may not be to your liking or worse the client's liking. ![]() $169.00 it is still a bit on the expensive side, but if you are making money with your photos, then it maybe well worth it. I can not justify the $265 for the package though, however, I would recommend buying the portraiture plugin per se. Moles are darker so it doesn't 'see' it for the most part. I think it goes by the range of colors based on skin tones and evens it out. ![]() It will not over do the skin smoothing, I notice that albeit it lightens moles, it will not remove it but it will remove pimples. I still had to use either Lightroom or Lightzone to 'fix' the hue and sat a bit, but for the most part it does a great job. If you like or can get what you like from the results as I did, it will save you hours of airbrushing and sharpening, etc. Portraiture - This is where the rubber meets the pavement. Grain - has a few templates of different types of film (how quaint j/k remember those) it gets close to accurately mimicking the grain from film stocks such as AGFA, Fujitsu, Kodak, etc. since it does not remove noise based on your camera's profile matrix at certain ISO's. Noise Reduction - Works great, not as good as Noise Ninja however. Noise reduction, Grain and the best part is the portraiture plugin. That's a lot of bread for a 8mb download which does 3 things. ![]()
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